Bow Diddley Block Of The Month Club

Class Fee for will cover pattern and class for 4 months. You pick your fabric and colors. 

Choose your colors/ Fabric: Shop for your kit fabric and receive 20% off


This Quit  it is FAT QUARTER friendly! With two different setting options, you can choose to make it simple with strip borders, or sassy with a sweet swag inner border and a gently scalloped outer border.

Fabric Requirements: Pick your own fabrics, see below: 

The “Diddley Bow” is a homemade musical instrument consisting of a single wire stretched over a glass bottle on a single piece of wood. It is played like a guitar but has a decidedly simple sound and beat. In the 1950s, blues musician, Ellas Bates (Ellas McDaniel) turned this sound into what we know as Rock and Roll, and made famous the name “Bo Diddley” using words from a traditional lullaby “Hush Little Baby”. “Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley, where you been?

Round the world and going again”….. The 1940s and 50s were a time when girls wore bows in their hair, ribbons on their ponytails and laced them in their saddle shoes instead of traditional shoe strings. It was a time of full skirts with lacy slips, crinolines and polka dots.

Mothers starched the crinolines and hung them on a line to dry so that they were very full and fluffy (and scratched the daylights out of the backs of your legs on hot days). Mothers made most of the clothes and supper was a real, home cooked meal. Maybe some of the food even came from their backyard. And mothers sang their babies to sleep with the song “Hush Little Baby”. The 40s and 50s were a time of prosperity after the second World War, but they were still a time of using a lot of what you had.

Families had a little more money, but they still used it wisely remembering their parents’ mantra of “use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without”. Many beautiful quilts were made during this time using an assortment of fabrics and “scraps”. Bow Diddley is such a quilt. Reminiscent of a quieter time when family was the center of life and you were sure life was secure when you curled up in a quilt and Mama sang you to sleep with “Hush Little Baby”.

The blocks in Bow Diddley are named for the things Mama was gonna buy you and a couple of other things of the time.

The setting uses many bows for your hair, your dresses, and your shoes. The simplicity of the design is to help you remember a time when there was less turmoil in our world and we were younger. Enjoy Bow Diddley, and we hope you enjoy remembering when life was a simple affair and you curled up in your Mama’s lap at night, wrapped in a beautiful quilt.